me too, but with case, psu, ram, hdd, i7-920 (and moreso 860) was a better deal for about a year and a half. there are SOME distributed computing (that's not ALL i do, fyi) people that run their farms on paper trays or other neat little vertical stacks, though.
it's not cheap, nor is it THAT expensive, but they can just send it in to Sony for repair.
Sony didn't flash my 60gb when i had repair work done on it...
Bullshit. Every film on HDDVD was released in 1080p, just like on Blu-ray. Interlaced video is only used for high-framerate television recordings.
also, ironically, most top tier BD50 movies that came out in the first year or two would have fit on a 30GB HD DVD disc (some may have required lossy compression like DTS 1.5) like Pirates, Crank, Ratatouille, Baraka, Corpse Bride, No Country For Old Men. you could probably even with a bit of hand tweaking (or easily with h.264) get Harry Potter into 30gb (most are under with 2 and 3 at ~35gb).
Unless ATI's drivers stabilize, Nvidia will always have a market in the high-end gaming market.
i've never had issues with stability (other than installer hosing vista once), but never had a BSOD. *performance*, on the other hand, of bleeding edge games i hear (from a trusted friend) is hit or miss. my dumb ass still bought one (to play *my* first ever bleeding edge game, NFS: Shift)
My PS3 failed... (at first texture glitches, but then it completely died after a FW update)...but this was after running it pretty much for 6-8 months straight (folding@home) in a light-to-medium dusty environment. i suspect a clean, server room environment might have fared better. this was a launch month (but not launch day) 60GB. my nick can be searched on the f@h page for whatever details can be gleaned...
i wouldn't really say plummet. the cheapest i've seen is $180. down from $200 which it has sat at for a while. i got the MSI X58 Pro Openbox for $131...but then had to spend $48 on NB/SB coolers (2 x $24 for the HR-05 IFX; i probably could have gotten away with 1 + a cheaper SB cooler, but i was in a rush and didn't want to do even MORE searching and wait for it before powering on the machine)
i THINK the X58M MSRP is supposed to be $160, but that hasn't trickled down, yet.
i'm slightly disturbed (but not entirely). a fair portion of my fave tracks i've bought on old, crufty Physical Media but haven't bothered to rerip an already "pretty good" scene encode (i'm an -m s fan that refuses to break the habit). thankfully most aren't RIAA artists.
maybe someone wants to analyze the data that Last.FM outputs? (i didn't RTFM.. yet)
it's not like you can simply move it around. the site is a monster in needing resources. you can't just throw it on a shared hosting account and it work. it is/was a one-stop convenient collection of torrents. break off into hundreds of smaller sites, and it's a pain in the ass to find what you're looking for. ED2K fell apart (in the way of being useful) IMNSHO when Razorback when down.
"Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
it's not that it's "music collected that people couldn't have bought all in the first place," it's that the fucked up RIAA and its fucked up control of 95% of airwaves. small, unknown, or international bands are not going to get played on the radio. people looking for music that's not meant for strictly radio play can only find it by doing a "rip, burn, share" or whatever the term is. i've bought almost all of what i've repeatedly listened to this year and recent years (but never would have heard on the radio). that which i haven't, isn't exactly something i pop down to a store (or even Amazon) and buy a lossless/physical copy...
and i've gone to pretty good lengths to buy my music... (i live in.us) whitelabel vinyl from.uk, promo dj CDRs from.nl, a cd(r) (with FLAC download to tide me over til it arrives) from magnatune, vinyl from.dk (because no CDS i can find exists, other than the source of my MP3), bootleg remix on CD from russia, ambient from a psytrance store in.il, lossless WAVs from a Torontonian DJ, artist...
"It is the only mass medium that reaches everyone."
uhm radio? i despise pretty much all American news except for NPR/BBC (and that's coming from a conservative!...or at least conservative-raised)
they already HAVE turned the power up, at least locally. back during the Olypmics, i couldn't even get the local NBC affiliate. i checked recently, and i'm getting between 90 and 100% "signal strength" and "signal quality" from all stations, even the local Hispanic one. and i'm ground floor of an apartment in one of the vallies in our city.
"People *are not* tied to a single provider. I can go with Comcast, Verizon, Road Runner, SprintPCS, and others."
lucky you. it's Comcast, Qwest (and any DSL provider that can use Qwest lines). and i'm in a quiet apartment complex in a comfortably populated area, probably in the middle of a middle class area. Accords and large new american cars in our parking lot, and you see a few S500s driving down our side street every week, so by no means the a poorly maintained street. in spite of this, only one of the national cellphone carriers has usable service (i dont' know and don't care as to who that is)...
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me too, but with case, psu, ram, hdd, i7-920 (and moreso 860) was a better deal for about a year and a half. there are SOME distributed computing (that's not ALL i do, fyi) people that run their farms on paper trays or other neat little vertical stacks, though.
interesting, one of my coworkers experiences the same migranes, too.
...since this IS Ask Slashdot ;)
speaking of searches, and i'm sure this will kill my karma, anyone had fun with google trends?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=bdsm&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
http://www.google.com/trends?q=vodka&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
http://www.google.com/trends?q=anal+sex&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
http://www.google.com/trends?q=anal+sex%2C+brokeback+mountain%2C+anal+fisting%2C+gay+porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
http://www.google.com/trends?q=beer%2C+vodka%2C+wine%2C+bourbon%2C+champagne&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
http://www.google.com/trends?q=3d%2C+blu-ray&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
http://www.google.com/trends?q=x264%2C+xvid&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
http://www.google.com/trends?q=farmville%2C+%22left+4+dead%22%2C+mw2&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
i'll let you glean what you want from http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/world/pakistan-no1-in-the-world-in-pornographic-internet-searches/story-e6freoqf-1225891491204
http://www.google.com/trends?q=1,+2,+3,+4,+5&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google,+bing&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
don't forget http://theoatmeal.com/comics/computers
Typing of the Dead, Power Stone, and Chu Chu Rocket. on physical media, please.
it's not cheap, nor is it THAT expensive, but they can just send it in to Sony for repair. Sony didn't flash my 60gb when i had repair work done on it...
Bullshit. Every film on HDDVD was released in 1080p, just like on Blu-ray. Interlaced video is only used for high-framerate television recordings.
also, ironically, most top tier BD50 movies that came out in the first year or two would have fit on a 30GB HD DVD disc (some may have required lossy compression like DTS 1.5) like Pirates, Crank, Ratatouille, Baraka, Corpse Bride, No Country For Old Men. you could probably even with a bit of hand tweaking (or easily with h.264) get Harry Potter into 30gb (most are under with 2 and 3 at ~35gb).
anyone leech the NSFW version?
source: Neuro's demo Masagin (apologies, it's not my best encode, but i had to work and wanted to get all the samples up ASAP)
(for more wheezy computers)
halfres 720p30: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZZT4OGLD
halfres 720p60: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WHWJIXHZ
(for manly computers that eat HD for breakfast (or just a $30 radeon 3000+ or geforce 8000+ and mpc hc))
720p30: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LSM31W74
720p60: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9XC9NN7A
parts that especially leap out at me as being noticeable (altho 90% is noticeably not 60fps smooth to me)
0:28-0:59
1:26-1:29
1:58-2:28
Unless ATI's drivers stabilize, Nvidia will always have a market in the high-end gaming market.
i've never had issues with stability (other than installer hosing vista once), but never had a BSOD. *performance*, on the other hand, of bleeding edge games i hear (from a trusted friend) is hit or miss. my dumb ass still bought one (to play *my* first ever bleeding edge game, NFS: Shift)
My PS3 failed... (at first texture glitches, but then it completely died after a FW update) ...but this was after running it pretty much for 6-8 months straight (folding@home) in a light-to-medium dusty environment. i suspect a clean, server room environment might have fared better. this was a launch month (but not launch day) 60GB. my nick can be searched on the f@h page for whatever details can be gleaned...
i think it's called Limited Basic
i wouldn't really say plummet. the cheapest i've seen is $180. down from $200 which it has sat at for a while. i got the MSI X58 Pro Openbox for $131 ...but then had to spend $48 on NB/SB coolers (2 x $24 for the HR-05 IFX; i probably could have gotten away with 1 + a cheaper SB cooler, but i was in a rush and didn't want to do even MORE searching and wait for it before powering on the machine)
i THINK the X58M MSRP is supposed to be $160, but that hasn't trickled down, yet.
i'm slightly disturbed (but not entirely). a fair portion of my fave tracks i've bought on old, crufty Physical Media but haven't bothered to rerip an already "pretty good" scene encode (i'm an -m s fan that refuses to break the habit). thankfully most aren't RIAA artists.
.. yet)
maybe someone wants to analyze the data that Last.FM outputs? (i didn't RTFM
it's not like you can simply move it around. the site is a monster in needing resources. you can't just throw it on a shared hosting account and it work. it is/was a one-stop convenient collection of torrents. break off into hundreds of smaller sites, and it's a pain in the ass to find what you're looking for. ED2K fell apart (in the way of being useful) IMNSHO when Razorback when down.
i'll just leave this here:
"Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
nothing of interest in 2009?
how about casual games as fun as L4D?
it's not that it's "music collected that people couldn't have bought all in the first place," it's that the fucked up RIAA and its fucked up control of 95% of airwaves. small, unknown, or international bands are not going to get played on the radio. people looking for music that's not meant for strictly radio play can only find it by doing a "rip, burn, share" or whatever the term is. i've bought almost all of what i've repeatedly listened to this year and recent years (but never would have heard on the radio). that which i haven't, isn't exactly something i pop down to a store (or even Amazon) and buy a lossless/physical copy ...
.us) whitelabel vinyl from .uk, promo dj CDRs from .nl, a cd(r) (with FLAC download to tide me over til it arrives) from magnatune, vinyl from .dk (because no CDS i can find exists, other than the source of my MP3), bootleg remix on CD from russia, ambient from a psytrance store in .il, lossless WAVs from a Torontonian DJ, artist...
and i've gone to pretty good lengths to buy my music... (i live in
hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
"It is the only mass medium that reaches everyone." uhm radio? i despise pretty much all American news except for NPR/BBC (and that's coming from a conservative! ...or at least conservative-raised)
is it RUbuntu?
guess i may need to update it ;)
they already HAVE turned the power up, at least locally. back during the Olypmics, i couldn't even get the local NBC affiliate. i checked recently, and i'm getting between 90 and 100% "signal strength" and "signal quality" from all stations, even the local Hispanic one. and i'm ground floor of an apartment in one of the vallies in our city.
"People *are not* tied to a single provider. I can go with Comcast, Verizon, Road Runner, SprintPCS, and others."
lucky you. it's Comcast, Qwest (and any DSL provider that can use Qwest lines). and i'm in a quiet apartment complex in a comfortably populated area, probably in the middle of a middle class area. Accords and large new american cars in our parking lot, and you see a few S500s driving down our side street every week, so by no means the a poorly maintained street. in spite of this, only one of the national cellphone carriers has usable service (i dont' know and don't care as to who that is)...